Creative technologies for science and engineering popularization in the contemporary museum

16. bis 17. März 2009 Winzavod Centre for Contemporary Art

Beitrag von Christa Sommererund Laurent Mignoneau (Austria):

The Art and Science of Interface and Interaction Design.
Artists and designers in the area of interactive art have been conducting artistic research in human-machine interaction for a number of years now. Interaction and interface design have not only had their roots in human computer interaction engineering but have also seen parallel developments in performance art, media art and specifically in the interactive arts. With products of interactive technologies increasingly spreading into our private and professional lives, it is interesting to see where early notions of interactivity came from and how artists and designers over the past 40 or more years have already looked at the merits of interaction in their artistic and conceptual work.
From media art archeology to contemporary interactive art - the term interactivity is based on a vivid and ongoing discourse in the fields of interactive art, interaction design, game design, tangible interfaces, auditory interfaces, fashionable technologies, wearable devices, intelligent ambiences, sensor technologies, telecommunication, media facades and new experimental forms of human-machine, human-human and machine-machine interactions.
In this lecture artistic and social notions of interactivity will be addressed and the general question on how art and science can merge in the area of interface culture will be discussed.

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